EdUou'a First Marriago.
The story of Edison's first marriage
hows how completely he is dominated
by the experimenting fever. He had
never thought of getting married, but
when some of his friends urged upon
him the advisability of talcing a wife he
assented and said that if they would find
a nice girl he would marry her. He
finally picked out a pleasant faced girl
from his factory and asked her to marry
fcim. She consented, and Edison agreed
to lave his beloved laboratory for a
day's wedding trip. On the way from
the chapel in which they were married
to the railway station the carriage passed
the laboratory.
The temptation was too much. Edi
son stopped the carriage and, telling the
bride that he would follow her to the
station in time to catch the train, he
plunged into some experiment that had
occurred to him during the church ser
Tices. Hour after hour passed. The
poor bride waited all the afternoon in
the station and was then driven back to
the house. It was 11 o'clock at night
before his assistants could tear Edison
sway from his laboratory and get him
home.
When he is at work Edison loses all
count of time. He will keep the whole
establishment on a rush for hours at a
8 1 retch, and seems astonished when any
one hints that it might be well to get
something to eat. He is capable of work
ing all day and night without showing
fatigue. Chicago Journal.
Speed uud Form In Shifts.
The primary condition for high speed
is fineness of form, so that the water at
the bow of the vessel may be separated
and thrown to one side and brought to
rest again at the stern and behind the
essel with the least possible disturb
ance, and the measure of efficiency of
form for the maximum speed intended
is inversely at the height of the waves
of disturbance.
A ship that has been designed to attain
a speed of fifteen knots will, when mov
ing at twelve knots, show a very slight
disturbance indeed, and in one designed
for eighteen kuots, when moving at this
lower speed, it will be scarcely observa
ble; but however fine the lines of a ship
may be, she must at every speed pro
duce some disturbance, although it may
be very slight, as the water displaced by
her must be raised above the normal
level and replaced at the normal level;
hence, at or near the bow of a ship there
is always the crest of a wave, and at or
near the stern the hollow of one.
When a vessel is going at its maximum
epeed. and is properly designed for -that
speed, the wave should not be very high,
nor should it extend beyond the im
mediate neighborhood of the bow; like
wise the wave of replacement should be
the same at or near the stern of a ship,
and the "wake" or disturbance of water
left behind in the track of the ship
should be narrow. A. E. Seaton in
Scribner's.
Coat in Theaters.
What ought one to do with one's coat,
hat and umbrella on entering a res
taurant or other place of entertainment?
What one ought not to do is to hang
Titingly these conveniences may offer
themselves, it is at your own risk that
you intrust your property to their keep
ing. Yon have no remedy i (as will
sometimes happen even in the best regu
lated restaurants) somebody makes off
with them, leaving a very inferior as
sortment ,of articles behind. If, how
ever, a polite waiter offers to help one
off with one's coat, all is well. If he
takes your property and hangs it up for
you he does so as an agent of his em
ployers, and you can f ecover from them
if it disappears.
This principle lias been asserted for
theatrical clonk rooms by a decision
' against Mr. Augustus Harris in the
Westminster .cionntv rnnrt A frAtitl-
man bad left his coat and hat with Mr.
Harris that is, in Mr. Harris' cloak
room on the occasion of one of the
fancy dress balls at Coveut Garden.
"TJhey disappeared. He had to leave
without his property, and has only lately
and partially got some of it back. His
honor said (we are glad to see) it was
monstrous to say that merely nominal
damages were sufficient. Pall Mall
Budget.
Why Called "Outaibus."
The father of the popular name "oin
mibus," according to Richard Kauf
mann's story of "The Omnibus in Paris."
wasacertaiu M. Baudry, of Nantes, at
the beginning of our century The Pas
cal coaches, which obtained a monopoly
from the king in 1CC2 for carrying his
subjects at five sous a head, along three
different routes in Paris, were first used
by the bourgeoisie. But after a few
years eutlenien and ladies of high birth
and courtly breeding ruled that it was
mot vulgar to ride in a Pascal chariot or
-''five sons coach." -
The use of these public conveyances
by the "quality" was noted as an im
portant event in the journals of the
time; but it resulted in the exclusion of
.J. 1 - .1 1 i.
virtual appropriation of these privileged
coaches by the aristocrats. The favor of
"the classes" ruined the monopoly, how--ever,
which only paid so long as its"
coaches were crowded by the masses, or
"omnes." So the Pascal chariot disap
peared from the streets of Paris because
it had ceased to be omnibus, or a demo
cratic vehicle. Pall Mall Gazette.
i flow Hair Xs Ulanched.
- It will be observed that, if the papilla
is obstructed or incrusted with deposits
from the sweat glads, such as sodium
chloride or organic salts, the sebaceous
secretion not being able to resich the pa
pilla the hair is deprived of its coloring
material. This we believe to be one of
the most common causes of blanching
of the hair. The skin eliminates a small
quantity of salts, a little carbonic acid
and a large quantity -of water. The
average amount of solids, according to
Foster, in the fluid perspiration or
sweat, is about 1.81 per cent., consisting
of common salt and organic salts gener
ally. Hyland C. Kirk in New York
Times. . , , .
Didn't Know It Wasn't Loadad.
A well dressed man made a bold at-'
tempt to commit suicide at Briggs' gun
Btore, in Chester. He asked to be shown'
a SS-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver.
The stranger examined ; it intently, and
then questioned Mr. Briggs as to the
method of loading it. He appeared to
be ignorant of the manner of using fire
arms. The modus operandi was ex
plained to him.
The stranger insisted that a cartridge
be placed in the revolver, but a certain
look in the man's face excited Mr.
Briggs' suspicion, and pretending to
charge a chamber he handed over the
empty revolver. In a flash the stranger
placed the muzzle to his breast and
pulled the trigger. Bitter disappoint
ment swept over his face when there
was only a harmless click.
"You can't harm yourself, friend," re
marked Mr. Briggs, "the revolver" is
empty. Give me the pistol." The in
tended instrument of death was returned,
when the stranger said: "I intended to
commit suicide, and my mind was fully
made up when I entered your store. 1
had no revolver of my own, and 1 thought
T i .1 x i a i m. i a i
I could get a chance to shoot myself by
pretending to make a purchase. I have
had trouble more than I thought I could
bear, but the last straw was laid on last
night. If you had loaded that revolver
I would have been a dead man now."
The stranger hurriedly left. Cor. Phila
delphia Telegraph.
Two Skeletons.
While extending and repairing the old
buildings of the late Royal Naval school
at New Cross, S. E., which is shortly to
be opened by the Goldsmiths company
as their Technical and Recreative insti
tute, it became necessary to remove the
floor of the old gymnasium. In doing so
the workmen discovered the skeleton of
a cat in close juxtaposition to that of a
rat. The bodies of the animals were not
quite two inches apart in a sort of a
wedged shaped cul de sac, which was
wider at the top than the bottom, and
so preventing the cat from quite reach
ing the rat. When found, the entrance
to the hole or passage was filled tip with
dust and rubbish, and there was nothing
to prevent egress of the animals by the
way they had entered except the disin
clination of the cat to leave its prey.
The skeletons when found were more
than half covered with dust from the
floor above them, and have probably
been many years in the position they
were found, in which position Mr. Red
mayne, secretary of the Goldsmiths' in
stitute, has had them carefully mounted
and photographed. A curious coinci
dence is that exactly the same discovery
of the skeletons of a cat and rat together
under a floor occurred while pulling
down some old buildings to construct
the People's palace, which is the imme
diate predecessor of the Goldsmiths' in
stitute. Pall Mall Budget.
Julian Hawthorne Oatrowed.
A small party of Philadelphia and
New York newspaper men and authors
spent Sunday at the Delaware Water
Gap as the guest of Mr. George W.
Childs, who entertained them . with his
customary lavish hospitality. Paul B.
du Chaillu, Joseph M. Stoddart, H. B.
Gross, Henry C. Walsh and Melville
Philips went from this city, and Julian
Hawthorne. John Habberton and Nugent
Robinson came on from New York.
An interesting feature of the jaunt
was a boat race late on Saturday after
noon in which all the guests participated
with a rather extraordinary result.
Julian Hawthorne, with .all his biceps,
came in last, a good two lengths in the
rear of John Habberton. It was a neck-to-neck
contest for several hundred yards
between Paul du Chaillu and Henry C.
Walsh, the African hero, however, a
conspicuous object in his white flannels,
winning by a powerful spurt. Philadel
phia Press.
Work That Never Stops.
Upper Broadway presents a weird
scene these summer nights. The flare of
torches, the chink, chink, chink of the
drill, and the swinging lanterns above
the workmen in the trenches greet re
turning amusement seekers. This labor
goes on all night and continues all day,
the day being punctuated by dull rever
berations of the dynamiters that make
the contiguous buildings tremble. All
this is the forerunner of Colonel Dan La
mont's cable railway.
In the lower city other night workmen
are sinking test holes in anticipation of
the rapid transit tunnels. " There is al
ways a little knot of more or less belated
people gathered about these busy fellows
in the pits. They pause for a moment
and then trudge along homeward. Every
thing else but the streets is shut up.
Broadway is open all night. New York,
Herald.
Tlnrtkslias for Chicago.
There were taken out of the Chicago
custom house a few days ago a lot of
queer looking packing cases, bearing
upon their exterior some peculiar hiero
glyphics that were undecipherable to
Uncle Sam's clerks. The boxes were
claimed by Isaac Wool f, the west side
merchant, to whom 'they were consigned
from Japan. They contained the parts
of two of those Japanese vehicles known
as jinrikshas, which are to be used in
the west side parks for the amusement
of the little folks.. Mr. and Mrs. Woolf
while traveling in Japan became so im
pressed with this land of vehicle that
they decided to bring two of them to
Chicago and two Japanese runners to
j draw them. Philadelphia Ledger.
Tired of Belus a Frenk. .
;.- "Darky Sam," the county infirmary
t character who has been posing as a prince
of the royal blood of "Fiji with the col-.
lection of freaks and curiosities in a
small traveling circus, returned to the
poorhouse recently, content to retire to
private life. To heighten the outland
ishness of Sam's natural appearance his
exhibitors had shaved his head, with the
exception of a strip extending from fore
head to occiput, resembling the roached
tnane of a mule. He was worn out by
the hard labor with the canvas gang,
. and is willing to remain in the infirmary,
i Warren (Pa. J Ledger.
klr. Quinn'i Ghost. ',
John Quinn, an old man, died at his
residence on Bowman avenue, Danville,
Ills., about two weeks ago. After his
death the family vacated the house,
which was soon occupied by another
family.
Yesterday afternoon, after locking all
the doors, the family left for a few hours'
visit with some friends in another part
of the city. ' On their return home about
dusk they were startled to see Mr. Quinn,
dressed in his ordinary wearing apparel,
walking up and down the floor of his
former sleeping room.
Several neighbors were called to wit
ness the strange spectacle, among whom
were Wilber Walker, Mary Wilmer and
Mrs. Henry Kirby. Mr. Quinn's ghost
came twice to the window, bowed to
people gathered in the street and then
sat down in the window.
Suddenly every trace of him disap
peared. Mr. Spreht and Miss Wilmer
mustered up courage enough to enter
the house and found that not a lamp in
the house would burn. Lights were ob
tained from the neighbors and search
was made throughout the house. Every-
... ,
thing was found securely locked, and
there was no trace of any one having en
tered. The neighborhood is greatly ex
cited over the occurrence. Cor. Indian
apolis Journal.
Moderation In Fishing.
It may be as well once again to remind
readers of the necessity for moderation
in fishing. Several records of catches
glanced over lately show far too many
fish killed for the fishermen to honestly
lay claim to the title of true sportsmen.
Season after season the old disgusting
story of the wanton destruction of our
game fish is told, while alleged gentle
men anglers and sportsmen keep on de
stroying fish recklessly, as though they
imagined the supply to be inexhaustible.
I do not mean to suggest that all anglers
are alike guilty. There are plenty of
men who know how to kill fish in sea
son, and who know enough to cease cast
ing when they have enjoyed a reasonable
amount of sport.
But there are others who appear to
measure their pleasure by the number of
fish killed, and who think more of being
"high hook" than of genuine sportsman
ship, and so they take fish as long as fish
will rise, though they know that half the
victims will never be used. The man
who will kill a trout or bass and throw
it away to rot among the bushes is no
more a true sportsman than is the man
who uses dynamite instead of the legiti
mate tackle. Outing.
A New Use for Rook Plates.
1 have a bookish acquaintance who
has conceived a new and by no means a
bad use for the plates of one of his books.
About five years ago he wrote a novel
which was quite successful that is, it
sold through three or four editions. Its
title would be perfectly familiar to any
literary person were I to print it. Fer
the las? year the book has ceased to sell,
and as quite a number of -copies of the
novel were on hand any further printing
would be improbable.
This summer my friend built a new
summer house, and when the builders
reached the fireplace in his study an idea
struck him. He forthwith opened nego
tiations wttff his publishers to sell him
the plates of his novel. The deal was
consummated, and the author, as he will
sit before his fire next autumn, will have
the pleasure of seeing his entire fireplace
made cf the plates of his book, and it is
not such a foolish idea, by long odds.
New York Cor. Chicago Herald.
Peony Bed 250 Tears Old.
In the yard of the old Foster home
stead is a flaming bed of peonies. The
bed has a history. Hundreds of years
ago maidens in Germany plucked the
gaudy flowers, and in the days when our
forefathers were struggling for suprem
acy with the red men Indians used to
beg a flower to stick in their topknots.
Mr. N. Foster, who was at work in his
garden yesterday afternoon, said, point
ing with pride to the big red flowers:
"Those peonies were brought from Ger
many by an ancestor of mine 259 years
ago. They were at first planted in the
yard of the old Breed house at the cor
ner of South and Summer streets. All
the Breed family today have flowers
from that stock growing in their gar
dens. In the early days the Indians used
to come to the old Breed homestead and
trade a basket of clams for one of the
flowers to wear in their hair." Lynn
(Mass.) Press.
A Woman's Hot Day Lunch.
Nobody will deny that it was a very
hot day. It was so hot at noon that men
dispensed with their coat3 and hats and
carried fans. Few persons cared to eat,
and the average luncheon served in the
down town eating resorts was very
light. Barrels of iced tea" and iced cof
fee were drauk. A perverse ' woman,
however, stepped into a "quick lunch"
place in Nassau street and calmly or
dered hot coffee and ice cream. She
took a spoonful of each alternately. The
man who sat next to her moved to an
other seat, becanse be said he could not
stand the steam from that cup of coffee.
New York Times.
I Near Lamar, Colo., a little girl of four
j years wandered to the platform of an
! express train and was blown off while
( the train was running at the rate of
j thirty miles an hour. A locomotive was
sent back, and the searchers found the
! child at midnight sitting unhurt in a
clump of weeds and keeping very still
: for fear the Indians would get her.
Too i:uch c:ir cannot be exercised in
striking a :i:;iu.:V .A Uridgeton JN. J.)
girl was eiyiiged ia the act when the
in.-iteh head Sew off. :iadv going into a
basket of paper flowts. ignited them
and some curtains that were near by.
From these the flames spread to the girl's
clothing and she was severely burned- ...
. 'A; wealthy Londoner" recently pur- '
chased some, Ceylon tea at 'the rate of
$26.80 per pound. The tea was of a fine
chop arid had come overland through
Russia, avoiding the supposed deleteri
ous tf:icts vf a, f-a voyajje.. .
A Manor for a Soap.
William I had a fine sense of what was
becoming at a royal table. He was so
well pleased at one of his little dinners
with a savory soup compounded by his
cook, Tezelin, that lie sent for him and
asked how it was named.
"I call it dillagrout," was the reply.
"A poor name for so good a soup!"
cried the king. "Nathless" everybody
said "nathless" in those days "we be
stow upon you the manor of Adding
ton." ;
This manor, I may add, reverted to
the crown. In the reign of Henry IH
.we find it in the hands of the Bardolfs,
and held on the tenure of "making
pasties in the king's kitchen on the day
of his coronation, or providing some one
as his deputy to make a dish called
grout, and if suet (seym) was added itl
was called malpigernoun."
At . Jame3 II's coronation the lord of
the manor claimed to find a man to
make a dish of grout in the royal kitch
en, and prayed that the king's cook might
be the man. The claim was allowed,
and the claimant knighted. But what
was this grout? Was it identical with
Tezelin's dillagrout and the Bardolfs mal
pigernoun? And was a pottage called
Bardolf , of which a Fourteenth century
recipe has been printed by the Society of
Antiquaries, identical with these? If so,
as among the ingredients were almond
milk, tho brawn of capons, sugar and
spice, chicken parboiled and chopped,
etc., it was doubtlessly a dish for a king.
All the Year Round.
Wonderful Campello Doe.
I want to speak of a rather interesting
example of animal sagacity I saw out in
Campello this week. As the perform
ance was of such a rare nature, and
simply demonstrated the affection dogs
will sometimes have toward horses, 1
will speak of the case. A groceryman
owns a horse and a remarkably intelli
gent canine, and every time the horse is
hitched to the delivery wagon and it
starts the dog is sure to follow in the
rear. In. the case I refer to I noticed the
wagon stop in front of a residence, and
as soon as the driver had left the -vehicle
the dog commenced to crop grass. He
got under the horse's head, reared on
his hind legs and transferred the grass
to the horse s mouth. Wonderful dog,
that. Brockton Dispatch.
Water Cresses.
These thrive admirably on this Coast
in all permanent streams of good water.
They can be had in abundance after once
being started. The plant belongs to the
mustard family and may be started
from seeds or by cutting the stems up
into bits and mixing them with the soil
under shallow water. It- makes very
wholesome greens or appetizer nearly
the year round, " especially in winter
vfhuii we need such things.
Just
In just 2-1 hours J. V. S. relieves constipation
and sick headaches, After it gets the system
under control an occasional dose prevents return.
We refer by permission to W. H. Marshall, Bruns
wick Bouse, a P.; Geo. A. Werner, 531 California
Bt, S. F.; Mrs. C. Melvin, ISC Kearny St., S. F.,
and many others who have found relief from
constipation and sick headaches. G.W. Vincent,
of 6 Terrenco Court, S. F. writes: "1 am 80 years
of age and have been troubled with constipation
for 25 years. I was recently induced to try Joy's
Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I recognized in it at
once an herb that the Mexicans used to give us
in the early 50's for bowel troubles. (I came to
California In 1839,) and I knew it would help me
and it has. For the first time in years I can steep
well and my system is regular and in splendid
condition. The old Mexican herbs in this remedy
aro a certain core in constipation and bowel
troubles." Ask for
Joy
Vegetable
w Sarsaparilla
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY.
THE DALLES, OREGON.
A Revelation.
Few people know that ths
bright bluish-green color of
the ordinary teas exposed In
the windows is not the nat
ural color. Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; mineral coloring
matter being used . for this
purpose. The effect is two
fold. It not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the
se of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the green cloak, are readily '
worked off as a good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor tea, in Rive
them a'finer appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper blcc-k kt;i!s by
glasingorfacingwith Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and- iudigo. This method is so gen
. eral that very little fftnuine vneoloretl green tea
is offered Jot tale."
It was the knowledge of this condition cf
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
Tea before the public. It is absolute!; pure
and without color. Did you ever see any
genuine nncolored Japan tea? Ak your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you
- will seo It, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to be just be
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to and the black teas.
It draw6 a delightful canary color, and is so
fragrant that It will be a revelation to tea
drinkers. Its purity makes It also" more
economical than the artificial teas, for less
of it is required per cup. Sold only in pound
packages bearing this trade-mark:
TAsndhood:
Xf your giooer does not hava it, he will get
U for to. FrieefiOe pet poand, For sale at
Xteslio ZOTj.-fcX',
Tie
Dalles
is here and has come to stay: It hopes
to win its way to public favor bv ener7
gy, industry and merit; and to this end
' .i it, . ..
we asK tnat you give it a lair trial, and
if satisfied with its course a erenerous
support.
The
four pages of six columns each, will be
issued every evening, except Sunday,
ana will be delivered m the city, or sent
by mail for the moderate sum of fiftj
cents a month.
Its Objeets
will be to advertise the resources of the
city, and adjacent country, . to assist in
developing our industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for our
trade, in securing an open river, and in
helping THE DALLES to take her prop
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Leading City of Eastern Oregon.
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be independent in politics, and in its
criticism of political matters, as in its
hancHine of local affairs it will V.a
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We will enedavor to give all the lo
cal news, and we ask that your criticism
of our object and course, be formed from
the contents of the paper, and not from
rash assertions of outside parties.
THE WEEKLY,
sent to any address for $1.50 per year.
It will contain from four to six eight
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Kent, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzi
ness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia,
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness, Mental De
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sanity and leading to misery, decay and death.
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in either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat
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abuse or over indulgence. Each box contain
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f . Keepa on hand a full line of .
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June 19th, 1891. f
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Gentlemen Your kind favor received,
and in reply would Bay that I am more
than pleased with the terms offered me
on the last shipment of your medicines.
There is nothing like theni ever intro
duced in this country, especially for La
grippe and kindred complaints. I have
had no complaints so far, and everyone
is ready with a word of praise for their
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nd
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